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Former teacher benefited from quality schools

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The Sunday letter “Teacher changed tune on raises” from Steve Lichtblau was an absolutely
correct assessment of Joyce Blake and her tea party friends. I taught for many years at Upper
Arlington High School, where I observed Blake as an apolitical teacher who was silent on any
compensation issues, because she was enjoying the quality and compensation her school district was
providing. And yes, teacher and administrative salaries have always exceeded the competition in the
marketplace.

We live in a free-enterprise, competitive society. Within this context, excellence matters to
many of us. As a result, higher quality requires more resources.

Thus, it's both ironic and puzzling that a former teacher who enjoyed the benefits of working in
a school district willing to sustain quality now seeks to destroy those same benefits for current
teachers.